This place is envisioned as one homogeneous campus that has congregation spaces on each floor in the form of a gallery, a workstation, meeting rooms, and a library. These congregation spaces are the heart of each floor, which makes the plan flexible in terms of using these open spaces for multiple activities other than what they are designed for.
The Language department and the office interlock with each other on the first floor. The library and language department interlock on the second floor. The interlocking of activities is through open/flexible spaces, so one can rearrange the furniture to the needs of the event. This shared arrangement of spaces can open and merge, which can lead to chance interactions between the staff, students, and visitors for the sharing of ideas.
01 Ground floor
The ground floor space is a gallery with display walls on the periphery and for art storage. The display wall along the front facade is a combination of fixed display and two moving panels inside each bay of the column grid. The display wall-1 is hinged on the column, and display wall-2 is hinged to display wall-1, which can be removed and moved anywhere in the gallery. Similarly, there are many permutations and combinations of the display wall inside each bay of the beam grid, where the walls can hinge, move, and slide to create multiple layouts and possibilities for the gallery.
02 First floor
On the first floor, there is one small classroom and one big classroom, along with a teachers’ lounge and four flexible workstations of the language department. The teachers’ lounge, along with the workstation area, bleeds into the office space, where people from the office and the language department can interact, and it also allows an opportunity to rearrange the furniture and host a small event or a lecture for the language department. Maybe that could be the sixth classroom?
The language department and the office share a common reception area, which optimizes the reception activity and restricts the movement of the students coming to the language department to only the passage. In that case, only the teachers and the office staff occupy the heart of the floor.
03 Second floor
The Library is the heart of the second floor, which is surrounded by three big classrooms on three sides. The library is a big open space with four tables combined to make a big table for 14 students in the centre. The edge of the library has flexible workstations for students. The big classroom no 4 is two steps above the floor level, so in case of an event, the longer sides open towards the library, and it transforms into a stage.
